Word: prussian
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...Trinidad's Angostura Bitters, brewed originally at the Orinoco River town of Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar) by an ex-Prussian army surgeon named J.G.B. Siegert, and now shipped around the world from Port of Spain in millions of bottles containing a sauce whose secret, boasts the company, is "as hard to fathom as Mona Lisa's smile...
...gave the world the guillotine But still we don't know why the heck, You have to drop it on our neck. We're glad of what we did to you, At Agincourt and Waterloo. And now the Franco-Prussian War Is something we arc strongly for. So damn your food and damn your wines, Your twisted loaves and twisting vines. Your table d'hote, your a la carte, Your land, your history, your art. From now on you can keep the lot. Take every single thing you've got, Your land, your wealth, your...
...almost like the good old days. In an 18th century mansion on Paris' elegant Place Vendôme, Morgan & Cie., a name prestigious in French banking since the days of the Franco-Prussian War, last week reopened as an investment banking house. The reappearance of Morgan & Cie.,* complete with tellers' cages of gilded wrought iron, will remind a privileged minority of middle-aged Americans of the prewar years when Morgan's in Paris not only tended its clients' investments, but held their mail, minded their children, and saw their maids and steamer trunks safely into...
...EPISCOPAL INFALLIBILITY. The major achievement of Vatican I was the dogma that the Pope, speaking to the church ex cathedra on matters of faith and morals, is infallible. The council, which broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian war, never got around to defining a related issue on its agenda: how other bishops of the church, as descendants of the apostles, share in this infallibility. To put the dogma of papal infallibility in proper perspective, Vatican II may formulate the traditional Catholic belief that when bishops in their dioceses speak out on a matter of faith and morals...
...into melodrama, but the occasion was rare. She drew the unemployed, the underfed, the suddenly bereaved; often she found inspiration in Berlin's city morgue-by sketching accident or murder victims. Whether in the morgue, on a slum sidewalk, or in her big, incredibly cluttered studio in the Prussian Academy of Arts, the rhythm of her crayon or pencil varied with the mood, now feverish with shock, now heavy with despair. She was capable of depicting love in a tender drawing of a mother and a child; but in another drawing, the child might be dead and the love...